Name: Aoife O’Connell (Soprano)

Date of birth: 30/07/1988

Mobile: 00447950651373

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Opera Roles
Role / Opera / Company / Year
Gianetta (Cover) / The Gondoliers / National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company / 2015
Patience (Cover) / Patience / National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company / 2015
Pamina / The Magic Flute / Young Opera Venture / 2014
Fiordiligi / Cosí fan tutte / RWCMD / 2014
Ensemble / The Invader (new work) / Waterford Theatre Royal / 2014
Pamina / The Magic Flute / RWCMD / 2014
Fido / Paul Bunyan / WNYO / 2013
Controller / Flight / RWCMD / 2013
2nd Niece
Lucia / Britten’s Women / Bath International Music Festival / 2013
Lucia (cover) / Rape of Lucretia / RWCMD / 2013
Diana / Orpheus in the Underworld / Opera r’ Ddraig / 2013
Chorus / Carmen / St Magnus International Festival / 2012
Venus / Venus & Adonis / Sforza Baroque / 2012
Bridesmaid / Le Nozze di Figaro / RWCMD / 2012
Damon / Acis & Galatea / Opera r’ Ddraig / 2012
Chorus / Dido & Aeneas / Opera r’Ddraig / 2012
Chorus / Romeo et Juliette / Opera Ireland / 2010
Nymph / Acis & Galatea / Opera Theatre Company / 2009
Serpetta / La FintaGiardiniera / RIAM / 2009
Scenes
Nanetta / Falstaff / Italian Summer Opera course / 2013
Anne Trulove / The Rakes Progress / Opera Gala – RWCMD / 2013
La Fée / Cendrillon / Opera Gala - RWCMD / 2012
Governess / Turn of the Screw / Scenes RWCMD / 2012
Solo Concert and Oratorio
Soloist / Mendelssohn’s Elijah / Stafford Choral Society / 2015
Soprano Soloist / Mozart’s Mass in C Minor / Monmouth School Choral Society / 2015
Soloist / Gounod’s MesseSollenelle / Aberdeen Sinfonietta / 2015
Soloist / Opera Gala / Mary Kaptein Management, Dordrecht, Netherlands. / 2014
Soloist / Opera Favourites / WNO Friends, Music in Islip / 2013
Soloist / Images of Schubert / RWCMD with Benjamin Frith / 2012
Street Chorus / Bernstein: Mass / BBC Proms / 2012
Soloist / Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / RWCMD Chamber Orchestra / 2012
Soloist / Handel Arias / RWCMD Chamber Orchestra and
Crispian Steele – Perkins / 2012
Soloist / Rutter: Mass of the Children / Bray Choral Society / 2011
Soloist / Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man / Wicklow Choral Society / 2011
Soloist / Vaughan Williams: Hodie / Trinity College Choral Society / 2010
Soloist / Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / RIAM Chamber Orchestra,
National Concert Hall, Dublin / 2010
Soloist / Haydn: Missa Brevis in F / Bray Choral Society / 2009

Conductors/ Directors/ Coaches:

Suzanne Murphy, Michael Pollock, Ingrid Surgenor, Aoife O’Sullivan, David Adams, Dearbhla Collins, Andrew Synnott, Calum Fraser, Dafydd Williams, Martin Constantine, Alice Farnham, David Jones, Harry Fehr, AnnileseMiskimmon, Donald Maxwell, John Savournin, John Fisher.

Awards/ Scholarships:

Finalist of the NI Opera Festival of Voice (2015), Winner of the John McCormack, Cuisine de France €5000 Bursary at Dublin FeisCeoil (2015), Finalist in the Ian Stoutzker Prize for most outstanding musician at the RWCMD (2014), Commended in National Mozart competition (2012), Young Musician with Camerata Ireland (2012), Elias Soprano Prize, LeverhulmeFoundation.

Nationality/ Languages:

Nationality Irish citizen

Languages English: Fluent

French: Intermediate

German: Intermediate

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama / MA Opera Performance / 2012 – 2014
Trinity College, Dublin / M.Phil Theatre and Performance / 2010 – 2011
Royal Irish Academy of Music / BA Music Performance / 2006 – 2010

Education:

Upcoming Performances:

Fiordiligi / Cosí fan tutte – Black Cat Opera, December 2015

Adina / L’elisird’amore – OpraCymru, March 2016